20 Fun Christmas Games for Large Groups

With the holiday season around, it’s time to get together with your friends and colleagues to play some Christmas games. I have for you, easy and fun Christmas games for large groups that you can play at work, office, church events, community gatherings, school, and colleges. These games are quick to plan for a Christmas party and will make your holiday celebration more fun with less work.

Christmas Carol Charades

You can go with this classic charades with a Christmas twist, so that it’s easy for the large crowd to play. Divide the crowd into groups. List down popular Christmas carol names on slips of paper, and have participants from each group pick a slip and act them out without speaking. Their team has to guess the song based on gestures alone, which usually leads to laughs all around. Once the carol is identified, the team sings the carols for a festive, fun time.

“Who Am I?” Christmas Edition

This is another classic guessing game with a Christmas twist. A member of the team will play this game. You need to stick the name of a famous holiday character, like Santa, an elf, the Grinch, or any other from famous Christmas movies, on each person’s back. The player needs to ask yes-or-no questions to their team member to figure out who they are.

White Elephant Gift Exchange

This is a simple twist to the Christmas gift exchange and Secret Santa. A must to play at any Christmas party where you have planned a gift exchange. To play the White Elephant gift exchange, each participant brings a wrapped gift to place in a central pile. All pick a token to find their order to pick the gift. As per the order, the participants take turns choosing a gift or stealing a gift from someone else. It becomes hilarious and fun once people start stealing a gift.

Christmas Holiday Scavenger Hunt

To bring some adventure to the Christmas gathering, try a Christmas scavenger hunt. It’s very simple, you can make a list of holiday-themed items like candy canes, Santa hats, and holiday cards. Hide these items around the party space, and teams find them. The first team to bring everything on the list wins.

Christmas Bingo

Bingo never gets old and nostalgic to play, and it is perfect for a large crowd. Everyone knows the game, and the host need not explain the rules. Make bingo cards listing festive icons like Christmas ornaments, reindeer, Santa, and Christmas trees. The host will call out each item, and players mark it on their cards. The participant who gets a complete row or diagonal must say “Bingo!” and win a prize. To make it more fun, you can ask them to say “hoho” or “Merry Christmas” instead of bingo.

You can get a free Christmas Bingo Printable here. For more holiday bingo games, you can go to my Holiday Bingo Game Ideas (Free Printables).

Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

This is such a fun and simple contest that can make your celebration fun. And you need not do any preparations for it. Just keep a gift ready for the winner. Participants must come dressed in their wildest holiday sweaters, and everyone at the party gets to vote for an ugly Christmas sweater contest. The one with the most votes wins.

Ornament Guessing Game

This is another simple game to play with a crowd. You can use the extra party decor items to play this, so it’s a very minimal preparation game. Just blindfold the participant and make them guess the ornament. You can fill a box with ornaments and even go beyond that and use candies and any Christmas decor item. It gets really fun and entertaining.

Christmas Song Emoji Guessing Game

Make a list of popular Christmas songs and write them as emojis. For example, use 2 bell emojis for “Jingle Bells”. For a large group, instead of writing it on paper, make a PPT and play it on a projector. Each team must guess the song titles from the emojis and sing.

Holiday Pictionary

Make a list of holiday-themed words and phrases like “Candy cane” or “Secret Santa”. A player from the team picks a slip and draws clues on a whiteboard for their teammates to guess it. Set a time limit to make it challenging and ensure the games do not prolong the party timeline. The team that guesses it right wins.

Reindeer Antler Ring Toss

To bring some physical activity to the party, you must include this game. A pair from each team will play this game; one will wear antler headbands, and the other will try to toss rings onto them. Whoever lands the most rings on the antlers wins the game.

Christmas Trivia

Let’s test everyone’s Christmas knowledge by asking them some fun questions around Christmas celebration, it can be history or celebration, traditions or Christmas movies. All team members must gather around, and the host will ask each team a question one by one. Set a time limit of 1 minute; if the team does not answer the question, it passes to the next team.

Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt

This game is perfect for the workplace and offices, where you can plan a week of Christmas activities. Each day, hide an elf figure somewhere in the office, till the final celebration day, and email them a clue. The team that finds the most wins or each finding can be a point that will add to the party day’s game points.

If you want to just play this game on the day of the celebration. You can hide the elf at the party location and display the clue as a fun party banner for guests to find it.

Wrap Race Challenge

A participant from each team will play this game. Give each team a random shape object, like a Christmas ornament, a Santa hat, which will be difficult to pack. Players must wrap the items neatly within the given time. The wrapping that is neat and beautiful wins the game. Make sure to arrange gift wrapping materials like newspaper or gift paper, tape, and ribbons.

Christmas Karaoke

To make the event more fun and get everyone involved, you can also plan a karaoke. Singers, non-singers, everyone gets along and sings their favorite Christmas songs. If you want to keep it as a game and encourage participation, you can keep some fun categories for an award, like “Sleigh All Day” for the most confident singer, “Fa La La Fail” for the funniest off-beat or hilarious singer.

Candy Cane Relay Race

All the participants get a candy cane that they must hold in their mouths, and the team must stand in a circle. The host will hook an extra candy cane to the first member of the team. When the game starts, the extra candy cane must be passed to the next team member without using their hands, only by hooking it onto the next person’s candy cane. The first team to finish the loop and bring the extra candy cane to the first member again wins.

Christmas Movie Quote Game

To play this game, make a list of famous quotes from popular Christmas movies. The host must say each team a quote one by one. If they don’t answer it in 30 seconds, it passes to the next team. The team that guesses the most wins.

Snowball Toss

For a skillful, fun game. Set bins for each team and hand them some “snowballs” to land in the bin. You can make the snowballs with crumpled white paper or socks. Place bins at the same distance and set the time for 1 minute. At the end of a minute, the team whose bin has the most balls wins.

Christmas Cookie Decorating Contest

Make a cookie decoration station with some plain cookies and lots of decorating supplies like frosting, sprinkles, and candies. Participants must decorate the cookies in the given time only with the supplies provided, and someone can judge the prettiest, festive cookie.

Holiday “Two Truths and a Lie”

One member from a team will share two true and one false statement about their Christmas traditions or memories, and the other team must guess the lie. The team that guesses correctly wins. It gets very hilarious and fun to hear some stories.

Holiday Guess the Scent

A member of each team is blindfolded and they need to smell the items and guess the smell. All the smells must be holiday-focused, like hot cocoa, cinnamon, pine-scented candles, or essential oils. The team that guesses the most wins.

Hope these Christmas games for large groups gave you some ideas of games to play at your Christmas event at the office, church, or community. These games are even suitable to play school or college Christmas celebrations.